Marie McDonald
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Marie McDonald was an American singer and film actress of the 1940s and 1950s, nicknamed "The Body" for her glamorous pin-up image.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Marie McDonald canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6717393 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Marie McDonald Context triple: [Harry Karl, spouse, Marie McDonald]
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A.
Ellen McHugh
Ellen McHugh is a fictional character appearing in the 1928 silent drama film "Mother Machree."
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B.
Elizabeth McDowell
Elizabeth McDowell was the wife of American Regionalist painter and muralist Thomas Hart Benton.
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C.
Marion Kilpatrick
Marion Kilpatrick was the wife of American conservative columnist and television commentator James J. Kilpatrick.
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D.
Marion Marshall
Marion Marshall was an American film actress who appeared in numerous Hollywood movies from the 1940s through the 1960s.
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E.
Marian McAlpin
Marian McAlpin is the conflicted young protagonist of Margaret Atwood’s novel "The Edible Woman," whose growing aversion to food mirrors her anxiety about identity, gender roles, and societal expectations.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Marie McDonald Target entity description: Marie McDonald was an American singer and film actress of the 1940s and 1950s, nicknamed "The Body" for her glamorous pin-up image.
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A.
Ellen McHugh
Ellen McHugh is a fictional character appearing in the 1928 silent drama film "Mother Machree."
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B.
Elizabeth McDowell
Elizabeth McDowell was the wife of American Regionalist painter and muralist Thomas Hart Benton.
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C.
Marion Kilpatrick
Marion Kilpatrick was the wife of American conservative columnist and television commentator James J. Kilpatrick.
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D.
Marion Marshall
Marion Marshall was an American film actress who appeared in numerous Hollywood movies from the 1940s through the 1960s.
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E.
Marian McAlpin
Marian McAlpin is the conflicted young protagonist of Margaret Atwood’s novel "The Edible Woman," whose growing aversion to food mirrors her anxiety about identity, gender roles, and societal expectations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actress
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human ⓘ pin-up model ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | drug overdose ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1923-07-06 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1965-10-21 ⓘ |
| employer |
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | European American ⓘ |
| eyeColor | brown ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
modeling
ⓘ
motion pictures ⓘ music ⓘ |
| genre | popular music ⓘ |
| hairColor | blonde ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| nickname | The Body NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
glamorous pin-up image
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hourglass figure ⓘ |
| notableEvent | widely publicized alleged kidnapping in 1957 ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Guest in the House
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Living in a Big Way NERFINISHED ⓘ Prisoner of War NERFINISHED ⓘ Tell It to the Judge NERFINISHED ⓘ The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 3 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
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model ⓘ singer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Burgin, Kentucky, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Hidden Hills, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | California, United States ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Donald Taylor
NERFINISHED
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Harry Karl NERFINISHED ⓘ Jack Hansel NERFINISHED ⓘ Louis Bass NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Allord NERFINISHED ⓘ Victor Orsatti NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedIn | Hollywood film industry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Bing Crosby
NERFINISHED
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Dean Martin NERFINISHED ⓘ Gene Kelly NERFINISHED ⓘ Jerry Lewis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive |
1940s
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1950s ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Marie McDonald Description of subject: Marie McDonald was an American singer and film actress of the 1940s and 1950s, nicknamed "The Body" for her glamorous pin-up image.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.